The famed Japan-based artist's first solo show at the downtown L.A. museum includes a new work influenced by the COVID pandemic: 'I started to see different sides of people that I didn't know about them.'
As the artist’s wall label for the work explains, “Between normal times and times of emergency, people drastically change, and everyone started to look like aliens to me … On social media, for instance, someone who used to seem like a kind naturalist type unexpectedly started an aggressive protest against vaccines, denying their efficacy and claiming that the government was lying. I felt scared of people.
The famed 60-year-old artist elaborates, “It was really influenced by COVID. For the past two years, everyone was cooped up at home. A lot of the things that they couldn’t express that were really suppressed inside started to explode.”Joshua White/Courtesy of The Broad “And that’s when I started to see different sides of people that I didn’t know about them. It was almost akin to Kafka’s,” continues the Japan-based artist, who is known for his high-low approach to art, collaborations with brands like Louis Vuitton, and themes of grief and tragedy often dressed up with poppy flowers and mushrooms .
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